Similar Search Results

Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677238

Endogenous Fertility Policy

Booth, Alison L; Sepulveda, Facundo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper, we study the role of subsidies to fertility in ensuring the political viability of unfunded social security (SS). In our model, agents are heterogeneous in age and income. Young generations confront promises made previously by older generations, and in turn choose current levels...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123867

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Acemoglu, Daron; Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that … an increase in income on health expenditures. Our central estimate is an income elasticity of 0.7, with an elasticity of … unlikely to be substantial national or global general equilibrium effects of rising income on health spending, for example …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662110

What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788942

Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605

The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763

Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084235

Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers

Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032867

Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price

Gong, Xiaodong; Breuing, Robert; King, Anthony - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363238

The Availability of Child Care Centers, Perceived Search Costs and Parental Life Satisfaction

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

The supply of formal childcare has expanded in many developed countries. There is ambiguity, however, in the theory that the entry of care providers increases consumers’ surplus and the welfare of households in a market with differentiated services, such as childcare. This study empirically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459931